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rolling the ball to a spot where the soil is loose and then, by digging the 
earth away below it, burying it to a considerable depth. Caccobius in¬ 
cludes five species, one occurring in the plains and of which nothing is 
known. Coptorhina and Caccophilus occur in the hills. 
Coprini. —The majority of Indian species are included in this divi¬ 
sion, over 100 species occurring in India proper. Catharsius molossus 
Linn., C. sagax, Quens., and C. sabaeus, Fabr., are common, moderately 
large black insects that fly at night and come freely to lights in the rains. 
Copris is represented by C. repertus, Wlk., which flies in the hot weather 
and at the first rain. Heliocopris bucephalus , Fabr., and H. gigas , L. 
(midas F.) are the giants of the family, large thickset beetles with very 
powerful legs and greatly chitinised prothorax. Onitis is well represent¬ 
ed, moderate-sized beetles, of an olivaceous brown tint, without the exu¬ 
berance of horns and tubercles of the previous genera. Onthophagus 
comprises a very large number of usually small forms with very varied 
developments of horns and tubercles in the males. They are common 
in the dry hot weather and while some come to dung, others feed on dead 
insects; the abundant locusts that died after egg-laying at Igatpuri in June 
Fig. 142. —Onthophagus longicornis ; larva, egg in ball, imago. 
